The Sceptic

Welcome to episode ten of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors:   Claire Fox, the cross-bench peer and founder of the Academy of Ideas, on the fallout of the Southport attack and the crisis of multicultural Britain;   Dr. James Alexander, Professor of Political Science at Bilkent University, Turkey, on Labour’s devolution agenda...

Welcome to episode nine of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Toby Young, Daily Sceptic Editor-in-Chief and the founder of the Free Speech Union, on Labour’s outrageous attack on free speech in universities; Our special guest this week Andrew Montford, Director of Net Zero Watch, on the Government’s heat pump con and why it t...

Welcome to episode eight of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Dr David Livermore, microbiologist and Daily Sceptic regular, on the growing concerns about the Lucy Letby verdict, and how the Daily Sceptic led the world in raising them; Dr Angus Dalgleish, emeritus professor of oncology at the University of London and co-signa...

Welcome to episode seven of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Special guest Ross Clark, Spectator columnist and author of Not Zero, on why Ed Miliband’s crusade against oil and gas could put Britain’s economy 6 feet under; Tony Morrison, who writes on US politics for the Daily Sceptic, on the shocking assassination attempt a...

Welcome to this special episode of the Sceptic with Professor Eric Kaufmann, on his new book, Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution.   Eric is Head of the Institute of Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham, a member of the advisory board of the Free Speech Union and a senior fellow at Policy Exchange.   Host Laurie Wastell speaks to Eric about the thesis o...

Welcome to episode six of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following guests: Frank Haviland, editor at the New Conservative and author of The Frank Report substack, on Labour’s shallow election victory and the grim rise of Muslim sectarianism; Special guest David Frost, the Conservative peer and former chief Brexit negotiator, for a deep-dive into what the Tori...

Welcome to episode five of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: CJ Strachan, Daily Sceptic regular and the founder of the Fair Job initiative, on how “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion” took over the workplace – and how he’s fighting back; Andy Collingwood, writer and co-host of the Multipolarity podcast, who gives us a deep di...

Welcome to episode four of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: The mysterious and ever-incisive Daily Sceptic columnist J Sorel, on Keir Starmer’s technocratic plan to end parliamentary democracy; David McGrogan, associate law professor at Northumbria University, on a recent Supreme Court ruling that puts the future of UK oil...

Welcome to episode two of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: Ben Pile for a deep dive into the recent European elections and what it means for the EU’s Net Zero crusade Journalist Charlotte Gill on the madness of taxpayer-funded woke waste Dr. Noah Carl, Editor at Aporia, on the Lancet’s worrying embrace of gender ideology An...

Welcome to episode three of the Sceptic! On the show this week, host Laurie Wastell speaks to the following Daily Sceptic contributors: David Turver, author of the Eigen Values substack, on the elites’ Net Zero delusions and Labour’s ‘GB Energy’ plan; the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor, Chris Morrison, on how the Met Office is gaslighting us about the weather; and Dr. Freddie Attenborough, Res...

Welcome to episode one of the Sceptic! On the show this week: Toby Young explains how the Sceptic will look going forwards. Our environment editor Chris Morrison on why the mainstream media so often overlooks good news about the climate. Norwegian journalist Kathrine Jebsen-Moore on why she feels ashamed at Norway’s recent decision to recognise Palestine as a state. And Dr David McGrogan on the pr...